Tag: 2017

It's only April guys, but 2017 so far as been DR-A-MATIC! From not getting my previous dorm room, to having linoleum flooring, to hijackings and theft (and random dorm room black outs "I fear for my pc! Goodness...". It's been hectic only 4 months in. I don't know... I feel like the first thing we … Continue reading Day 2: 2017 is full of surprises (literally!)

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The Weighting Aisle: Dismantling structures of power in the check-out aisle In the piece, ‘Is it fake? Black Women’s Hair as Spectacle and Spectacular’ (1995), author Deborah Grayson states, ‘Hairstyle has become a battleground where issues related to the politics of personal appearance and beauty are being fought out.’ Further elaborating that, ‘due to mixed […]

Reading the text, S’Kop by Tanya Zack, the author narratives the story of the life of the relatively unseen -yet known- bovine butchers of the Johannesburg CBD. Thus, the aim of this exercise was to translate the narrative into visual manifestation based on my understanding of the text. But in respect of 5 themes: Lives, […]